close 24850 stop (triaging old bugs)
On 2016-11-01 9:55 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 01/11/16 06:30, qq wrote:[shred v8.20 sometimes takes 18min to shred 1G of /dev/sda, but usually takes 20seconds, on my ironic minios container]I'm not sure, but I suspect the issue is outside of shred. Note shred >= 8.21 enables direct IO which bypasses a lot of the system VM chicanery, and so may performance better for you.
With no follow-ups in 2 years, I'm closing this bug. -assaf
